Raphael Kühner (22 March 1802 – 16 April 1878) was a German classical scholar. He was born in

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

and educated at the Illustrious Gymnasium and the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. From 1824 to 1863, Kühner taught classes at the

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. He published an edition of the ''

Tusculanae Disputationes The ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' (also ''Tusculanae Quaestiones''; English: ''Tusculan Disputations'') is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in Ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is s ...

'' of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

(1829; fifth edition, 1874). His large Greek grammar, ''Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache'' (two volumes, 1834–35), was translated by William Edward Jelf (1842–45). An enlarged third edition in four volumes was produced by Friedrich Wilhelm Blass and

Bernhard Gerth Friedrich Bernhard Gerth (5 April 1844, Dresden – 1 February 1911, Leipzig) was a German educator and classical philologist. In 1868 he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the dialects of Greek tragedy, titl ...

(1890–1904). His large Latin grammar, ''Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache'' (two volumes, 1877–79), has been reëdited in enlarged form by Friedrich Holzweissig and Carl Stegmann (Hannover, 1912–14).Raphael Kühner
de.Wikisource His smaller Greek and Latin grammars passed through many editions. He died in

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